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You can see this in the Artificial Analysis benchmarks - GPT 6.1 Sol on medium thinking scores 10 points higher than DeepSeek 4.1, but is actually cheaper per task, as it only outputs 15 million tokens instead of 250 million.

Though for longer sessions I think DS4.1 would still come out cheaper... it's hard to beat that 98% cache discount

I thought this was very interesting - there's the map upfront, but you can also drill into individual countries and regions with some nice tables. Some "obvious" things here, though a few surprises:

* The solar potential of a gloomy, northern locale like the UK is "only" half of somewhere sunny like Australia. Though I can imagine the swings between seasons are greater.

* Northern Canada has a surprising amount of potential, compared to European regions at the same latitude

This happens with everything LLMs write - code comments, readmes, user facing UI text, etc. It just can't help but include every irrelevant detail from the context.

It's definitely gotten worse over time as well. Looking at older README files I generated using Opus/Sonnet 4.5, its actually quite shocking how clear and concise they are. Whereas eg, Opus 5 will write paragraphs and paragraphs about random things I prompted, or a partial solution that was then scrapped for something else.

My theory is that the increasing strength in performing long-context tasks has led to this particular quirk.

Codex does this too, I've noticed. LLMs seem to love documenting irrelevant implementation details in what should be user-facing text. I guess because the context is overwhelmingly the technical side of things, so without a later directive to steer it, that's what's most likely to come out.

Except on that page there's immediately a claim that isn't backed up by any of the citations, eg:

"The hunting-safety effect has been substantial. The non-fatal hunting accident rate in the United States fell substantially over the decades following blaze-orange adoption, with state hunter-safety data consistently identifying the orange mandate as a major contributor to that decline."

None of the sources have any national hunting accident data - there's a single link to data from New York, and nothing that would support the claim that state data "consistently" identifies anything...

OP here. I thought this was quite interesting as it's built around the RP2040, using GPIO to communicate with the DS - the firmware is completely open source and reprogrammable via USB.

Additionally, the launcher supports a bunch existing flashcards all the way back to the original R4 which released in late 2006.

Also, it's cheap! Unsurprising given the hardware, but I picked up a couple for $10 each, compared to the $40-50 you'd pay back in the day

Daily isn't the only option - you can still get monthly lenses.

The idea of writing a draft on paper, or cutting out squares to prototype layouts on a table, sounds like a nightmare to me. But I never did like pen and paper much and have lived and breathed computers since I was young. My ideal method of writing is a full screen monospaced terminal

That said, I do much prefer reading on paper, or at least on e-ink, for many of the same reasons outlined in the post. Computers and phones are just too distracting, and too dynamic.

And I'd love some way to write down shopping lists or appointments, and have them available wherever, without having to pull out the phone. Our current method is a whiteboard + a photo whenever we need it, which doesn't quite cut it.

I think this is a risk with anything that promotes itself as "unlimited", or otherwise doesn't specify concrete limits. I'm always sceptical of services like this as it feels like the terms could arbitrarily change at any point, as we've found out here.

(as a side note, it's funny to see see them promoting their native C app instead of using Java as a "shortcut". What I wouldn't give for more Java apps nowadays)

Not only that, but so many people are reluctant to pay for anything so your average installation is chock full of freemium plugins. I've worked on plenty of sites whose admin page looked a bit like the IE6 toolbar meme.